December 2015

Laying the Foundations with Financial Education If the latest survey of household finances from the Bank of England is anything to go by, there will… Read More »Building for the Future

Preparing students for employment A recent survey of employers listed the most common interview mistakes that candidates make, failing to do their research, not preparing… Read More »Helping students to understand the expectations of employers

Pay Back Time Student loans are a contentious issue, as the former leader of the Lib Dems, Nick Clegg, can testify. In this country, successive… Read More »Wongarising Education

You Can Count on Maths…. How best to teach different subjects is a seemingly endless debate and last week it was the turn of mathematics… Read More »The Importance of Maths in Daily Life

Rebels without a pause for thought? Yesterday, The Guardian published an article in the Teacher Network section of its website, which looked at how the… Read More »Taking Risks and Choosing Difficult Tasks

Loaded Dice The Office for National Statistics has just released its annual Family Spending survey, which offers an intriguing insight into what we in the… Read More »ONS survey highlights impact of prices on young people seeking work

“A little learning is a dangerous thing” wrote Alexander Pope over 200 years ago, a sentiment that will undoubtedly continue to ring true for the… Read More »I’m just a girl, I don’t understand the economy